Comment 6 for bug 429411
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| Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote Re: [Bug 429411] Re: nih: Set __abort_msg when aborting | #6 |
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On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:09 +0000, Mark Seaborn wrote:
> __abort_msg is an internal glibc symbol; it's not part of glibc's public
> interface. You're not supposed to set it from your own libraries. If
> your library links against this symbol, it may stop working in future
> glibc versions. See my comment on
> https:/
>
This was added by an Ubuntu developer, and was definitely intended to be
usable by other libraries that had their own assert functions. If the
developer got the glibc patch wrong, they'll fix it.
(Indeed, I see they've commented on that GNOME bug to say the same
thing)
Scott
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